X9»] FOOTBALL: INVERTED TEMPERATURES 
radiate less of his internal heat ? The most interesting 
example of Polar colouring here is the increased proportion 
of albinos amongst the giant petrels found in high latitudes. 
To-day have had our first game of football ; a harassing 
southerly wind sprang up, which helped my own side to 
the extent of three goals. 
This same wind came with a clear sky and jumped 
up and down in force throughout the afternoon, but has 
died away to-night. In the afternoon I saw an ominous 
lead outside the Island which appeared to extend a long 
way south. I'm much afraid it may go across our pony 
track from Hut Point. I am getting anxious to have 
the hut party back, and begin to wonder if the ice to the 
south will ever hold in permanently now that the Glacier 
Tongue has gone. 
Wednesday, May 3. — Another calm day, very beautiful 
and clear. Wilson and Bowers took our few dogs for a 
run in a sledge. Walked myself out over ice in North 
Bay — there are a good many cracks and pressures with 
varying thickness of ice, showing how tide and wind 
shift the thin sheets — the newest leads held young ice 
of 4 inches. 
The temperature remains high, the lowest yesterday 
- 1 3 0 ; it should be much lower with such calm weather 
and clear skies. A strange fact is now very commonly 
noticed : in calm weather there is usually a difference of 
4 0 or 5 0 between the temperature at the hut and that 
' on Wind Vane Hill (64 feet), the latter being the higher. 
This shows an inverted temperature. 
As I returned from my walk the southern sky seemed 
